The hot mess of insults and bad reporting starts out with this headline on the site of Baltimore’s ABC2 news site:

Baltimore City firefighter faces charges after alleged attack on transvestite

Both men arrested after hammer & scissors attacks

Never mind the GLAAD media reference guide, this is completely off the hook offensive in many newsrooms. How many people’s eyes were on this copy:

“It was alleged that Mr. Majette actually hit the other party in the head with a hammer and there was physical evidence of that,” said Lt. Robert McCullough, “The other party involved in this also assaulted Mr. Majette with a pair of scissors.”

Complicating matters is the fact that the woman who faced off with the firefighter, 30-year old Tamara King, is a self-described transvestite who has not completed all of the necessary surgeries to change his sex from male to female.

“Did you think King was a male or female?” we asked his neighbor, Ford.

“As far as I thought, I thought it was just a young girl,” she replied, “You know. A young girl starting out on her own. I didn’t know it was male, female or whatever. I just thought it was a young girl.”

Police say the transvestite claims the two had stripped off their clothing to have sex when the firefighter backed out and attempted to rob him.